anterior to
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The document they produced was, Beard argued, “essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
The patella, or kneecap, is a triangular bone that lies anterior to the knee joint.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In the lateral aspect of the frontal lobe, just anterior to the region of the motor cortex associated with the head and neck, is Broca’s area.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
They are referred to as prevertebral because they are anterior to the vertebral column.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Fourteen years anterior to the researches of Koch, Hering, Swan and Biegler availed themselves, as a homœopathic remedy, of the maceration of tuberculous lungs, and of the sputa of tuberculous subjects.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
